Civil society and interdependencies: Towards a regional political ecology of Mekong development

Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific: Between Local and Global

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 226-246

  Hirsch, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84909246329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203967843     Document Type: Chapter

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